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'S Albert Edward, 
well meaning but 
flighty, 

Who invited King Arthur, 
the blameless and 
mighty, 

To meet Alcibiades and 
Aphrodite* 



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IS for Bernhardt, 
who fails to 
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BarabbaSt and 
Bacon« 



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IS Columbust who 

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to explain 

How to balance an egg — 
to the utter disdain 

Of Confucius, Carlyle, 
Cleopatra, and Cain* 



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Darwin, 
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Who delight in the dance 
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The feelings of Fenelon, 
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IS Godiva, whose 
great bareback 
feat 

She kindly but firmly de- 
clines to repeat, 

Though Gounod and 
Goldsmith implore 
and entreat* 



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IS for Handel, 
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Howells and Homer, 
who roll 

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While Irving and 
Ingersoll 
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To Jonah, who tells him 
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IS the Kaiser, 
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Some original verses to 
Kipling and 
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IS Lafontaine, 
who finds he's 
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Lis^t in his fable, 

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With Nero, Narcissus, 
and Nordau, to whom 

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IS for Oliver^ 

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On Omar, that awfully 
dissolute Persian, 

Though secretly longing 
to join the diversion* 



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IS for Peter^ who 
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Through the keyhole to 
Paine, Paderewski, 
and Poe* 




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IS the Queen, 
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To RoUo and Rembrandt, 
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IS for Swinburne^ 
whot seeking the 
true, the good^ and 
the beautiful, visits the Zoo, 

Where he chances on Sap- 
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And Socrates, all with the 
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IS for Talleyrand 
toasting 
Miss Truth, 

By the side of her well, 
in a glass of vermouth, 

And presenting Mark 
Twain as the friend 
of his youths 




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IS for Undine, 

pursuing 

Ulysses 

And Umberto, who flee 
her damp, death- 
dealing kisses« 



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^S Wagner, who 
sang and played 
lots for Washing- 
ton^WesIey, and good Doctor 
Watts* His prurient plots 
pained Wesley and Watts, 
But Washington said he 
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IS Xantippe, 
who's having 
her say. 



And frightening the 
army of Xerxes 
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IS for Young, 
the great 
Mormon saint, 

Who thinks little Yum 
Yum and Yvette so 
quaint, 

He has to be instantly 
held in restraint* 




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IS for Zola, 
presenting 
La Terre 



To Zenobia the brave 
and Zuleika the fair. 

Whose blushes they 

artfully conceal with 
their hair* 




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This Alphabet of Celebrities 
written & pictured by Oliver 
Herford with a border & initial 
letters by Bertram Grosvenor 
Goodhue and end papers & 
cover design by E. B. Bird is 
printed for Small Maynard & 
Company at the Heintzemann 
Press in Boston U. S. A. in 
the month of November 
MDCCCXCIX 



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